Spotify isn't ending the world. They're acquiring quite a few properties, and are obviously big and imposing on the landscape, but I believe that they're not actively killing the podcasting dream. But how far they have to go to do that is open to debate. A debate we have on this episode.

Key Links:

•Nick Hilton of Podot Pods

•Article: https://soundsprofitable.com/update/spotify-megaphone-deal-----

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Episode 14: Spotify Is Not Going To Kill Podcasting

Music: [00:00:00] Springy, upbeat, acoustic music plays.

[00:00:04] Bryan: [00:00:04] SAI, DAI and Spotify. That's what we were talking about this week on Sounds Profitable with me, Bryan Barletta.

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[00:00:40] I know that you're listening to Sounds Profitable because podcast ad tech is important to you, but it's important to me that you are kept up to date on the latest news from the entire podcast industry. To help with that here's what happened last week. No matter when you're listening from James Cridland at Podnews,

[00:01:06] A few months back, Spotify purchased megaphone. Now there've been major acquisitions since, and there were major acquisitions before. And as with all of them, the sky was suddenly falling for a ton of outspoken people in the podcast industry. I wrote an article trying to quell that fear a bit called "No, the Spotify and megaphone deal won't put an end to podcasting." It's linked in the description. In that article. I mentioned the work of Nick Hilton and his article about Spotify, "The Lesser Spotified Pig". He was kind enough to come on the show and we got to talking about our different views on the world Spotify is bringing about.

[00:01:43] Music: [00:01:43] Music fades out. Interview begins.

[00:01:45] Bryan: [00:01:45] I worked at Megaphone, so full disclosure there.

[00:01:47] I left before the deal. So I left in August, so 2020 and it was really important to me to provide my view on it and highlight some of the other people in the spac...